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Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater Discharge : Why Must We Stop It?

With the backing of the United States and the IAEA, it is only a matter of time before the wastewater dump begins. Once the discharge starts, the Pacific ocean will be contaminated with radiation for the next three decades. With no clear prediction on how the radioactive discharge might disrupt the ecosystem of the ocean and the planet, what choices should we make? It is time for the people around the world to come in solidarity with the people of Fukushima and international environmental organizations to engage in a sweeping campaign to fight against the wastewater dump. Such a global ecological catastrophe must be stopped.

Policy ResearchInternational Strategy CenterJune 29, 2023japan, Nuclear

Japanese Fight Remilitarization

eishi Hinada is a National Executive Committee member of ZENKO (National Assembly for Peace and Democracy). ZENKO emerged in 1970 out of the student movement in the 1960s. He joined in 1981 as a university student activist in the anti-nuclear peace movement in Hiroshima.

ISC ArticlesInternational Strategy CenterJune 19, 2023japan, New Cold War, Peace

South Korea - Japan Relations: A Japanese Social Movement Perspective

On June, Seoul’s High Court ordered Japanese companies to pay reparations to forced laborers under Japanese colonization. In response, in July, Japan imposed restrictions on export of three chemicals crucial to the manufacture of Korean semiconductors.